Posts by Stephen Hunt

The good book: How to bet better online

Kauto Star

Seems to do the trick...

MPs told PGP 'incompatible' with Parliament network

"We couldn't possibly comment"

Me too...

UK gov to fund Virgin mothership micro-sat launcher

Top stuff

Well spent public dosh (imo)

Twitter breaks Jam Festival record

Meh

Well, I read it as being the total raised (see follow-up article) and I don't use twitter.

But to be honest, I only read this article because of the follow up - as twitter is a bit of a waste of time - and I tend to skip the article / change channel when there is any mention of twitnet.

Prof: Save up fossil fuel reserves to fight the next ice age

Rubbish

As most carbon is locked up in rock, in the fusion powered far future we can just use our new rock to CO2 technology to pump out the desired levels of CO2.

Boffin dubs global warming 'irreversible'

(Computer) models are like politicians...

...they tell you what you want to hear.

A lot of the dynamics related to environmental change is not well understood, so it can be a fair assumption that most computer models are wrong.

With 2008 being one of the coldest years of the last decade, La Nina condition prevalent in the pacific, a reduction in steelmaking and oil consumption (both CO2 factories), I think I will wait and see.

It wouldn't surprise me if 2009 saw another significant drop in GMST (global mean surface temperature) to levels common in the 1980's / 1990's and a sudden worry about snoball-earth again.

Tesla takes Top Gear test to task

Customer service

If this is the level of customer service I would get if I bought one then I think I'll pass. Don't think I would ever be able to convince them the car was broke - so it would end up unused in my garage.

Attack of the quarter-ton, 'fridge-sized' killer jellyfish

Send in...

...the army of toast soldiers. They will make short work of all that jelly.

Yahoo! planning massive layoffs for Wednesday

Yah...

Yahboo or Yahoboohoo?

DARPA seeks Hitchhikers Deep Thought program

Story? What story?

To come up with 'what's the real story here' presumes that these is a story hidden in the complex information, it also presumes that there is a single story.

One person's real story is another person's meh.

Scientists ponder mysterious source of cosmic rays

Nothing to do with the LHC

Before conspiracy theories start - they haven't even got up to colliding things yet.

Follow the Somali pirate scourge via Google mashup

Yarr!

Me hearties!

DARPA: Self-repairing, learning kill-robot tech is go

How about

Backup.hash = Hash(SRS.exe)

BackupSRS.exe = Copy(SRS.exe)

while (forever)

if (Hash(SRS.exe) != Backup.hash)

SRS.exe = Copy(BackupSRS.exe)

Job done. Where do I apply for the grant?

Virgin Media accused of shafting customers on upload rates

You don't know how lucky you are....

In my day, we didn't get an upload speed.

We had to save any data we wanted to upload onto floppy disks and post the disks to our ISP.